IDENTITY
草cǎograss
HSK 2Top 400
CORE MEANING
grass
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.grassHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 艹grass radical (cǎo)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱艹早
- plants
- gives the sound cǎo
USAGE
Common words
草地cǎodìlawn; grassland
草原cǎoyuánprairie
草莓cǎoméistrawberry
Graded examples
我们在草地上野餐。Wǒmen zài cǎodì shang yěcān.HSK3
We have a picnic on the grass.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Early (早) morning plants (艹) — the fresh grass.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #400
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
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